Floods in mountainous southwestern China have washed away roads, leaving many people stranded without food or water, and forced over 100,000 others to be evacuated from the cities of Ya’an and ...

Beijing — Heavy rainfall has swelled China's Yangtze River, threatening UNESCO World Heritage Sites and forcing officials to reassure nervous citizens that the world's largest hydroelectric dam isn't ...

The Leshan Giant Buddha in the province of Sichuan — the largest Buddha statue in the world — was partly submerged by ongoing floods in Southern China last week, reports Smithsonian Magazine. A ...

Aerial photo taken on Aug. 23, 2022 shows the Leshan Giant Buddha in southwest China's Sichuan Province. Facing the confluence of the Minjiang, Dadu and Qingyi rivers which saw the decrease of water ...

Tourists view the statue of the Leshan Giant Buddha in Leshan, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, March 23, 2020. Photo: Xinhua The management committee of a 5A tourist spot featuring China's largest ...

A few years back, the Leshan Giant Buddha started to weep. Or so some locals imagined when black streaks appeared on the rose-colored cheeks of the towering 7th-century figure, hewn from sandstone ...

Tourists view the statue of the Leshan Giant Buddha in Leshan City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, April 26, 2019. The giant Buddha in southwest China's Sichuan Province reopened to tourists ...

OVERSEAS visitors marvel at the grandeur of the Leshan Giant Buddha — the largest cliff-carved statue in China — and take photos with the iconic figure from a multitude of angles. Carved into a ...

Leshan, China - Buddhism is a religion and philosophy important to the Chinese people. You'd expect to find Buddhas in temples, but photojournalist Steve Rhodes and I discovered Buddhas of all sizes ...

The Leshan Giant Buddha, or Lingyun Giant Buddha, is the sculpture of a seated Maitreya Buddha located at the confluence of the Minjiang, Dadu and Qingyi rivers in southern Sichuan Province, close to ...

The highest peak on Mount Emei in Leshan, Sichuan province, is Wanfoding. The third Sichuan International Travel Expo will be held in Leshan in late September. Gao Luchuan / For China Daily Tourists ...

2000 Report on the ICOMOS/IUCN Joint Reactive Monitoring Mission to Mount Emei Scenic Area, including Leshan Giant ... Twenty-third session of the Committee - paragraph X.30. New information: In ...